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Grand Canal revived

The environment and China so usually we think of horror stories, the combination of environmental and triumph can sit up a so immediately. Under the title An ecological triumph in Hangzhou David Lague reported for IHT of the revival of the age-old Grand Canal, its history and (still) enormous economic importance Lague illuminated in his article.
The total was nearly 1,800 km long canal in recent years in the city of Hangzhou on a length of 39 kilometers (0.02% so handsome!) Organic revived and developed new urban planning. Lague also reports of plans to register the entire channel as a world cultural heritage and to realize from the joint efforts of the canal-side provinces that goal.
lurks in a subordinate clause but still an environmental disaster and the giganteske plan to alleviate them:

Some experts suggest that China's huge, $ plain 60 billion south-north water transfer project that aims to divert water from the Yangtze in the south to the arid North China via three channels could revive this disused stretch [ is meant here is part of the channel between Beijing and Jinan ] of the Grand Canal. The plan is for an upgraded and repaired grand canal to form the eastern leg of this diversion, taking water from the Yangtze River and Beijing and Tianjin by supplying 2012th

Happy Hangzhou, one can say!